Calibration of the inverted pendulum pedestrian model for laterally-oscillating structures based on stepping behaviour
A biomechanically-inspired inverted pendulum pedestrian model (IPM) was first introduced to the field of structural engineering by John H.G. Macdonald in 2009 [1]. The original IPM has been shown to qualitativelly capture pedestrian behaviour on laterally-oscillating structres, including the structural excitation mechanism. However, to make it suitable for use in engineering applications, it had to be reconciled with empirical observations. This task has been accomplished in our recent paper.